On 17 April 2013 02:51, Troy Adams <user-81e3256385bc@xymon.invalid> wrote:
A couple of my xymonnet tests are reporting "DNS error".
I use "testip" on pretty much all my hosts, and have explicit tests for
important DNS names. I don't think it's helpful for a service to be
reported as unavailable, or not even tested, because a DNS lookup fails.
(You can also run xymonnet with "--dns=ip" to get the same effect for
network tests.)
However the "testip" and "--dns=ip" settings don't apply to web tests.
Instead, you use a special syntax in hosts.cfg, for example:
10.1.2.3 # webserver1.example.com http://web1.example.com=
10.1.2.3/cgi-bin/testthis
J